Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 2 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 3 | ‘ The manufacture which forces itself upon a stranger 's eye is that of knit-stockings , on which the women of the lower class are visibly employed . ’ |
| 4 | But links them in a bird 's inhuman joy |
| 5 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 6 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 7 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 8 | Yes , she comes and collects it in a week 's time . |
| 9 | And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig 's tail , |
| 10 | With grit and determination she makes it in a man 's world by hiring and firing at will . |